Printing Terror
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'The six main chapters incorporate a broad range of texts, and in these Goodrum and Smith read comics from two distinct periods—the periods before and after the formation of the Comics Code Authority (CCA) in 1954—through the lenses of trauma, race, and gender.'
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'The authors robustly show the extent to which horror comics appear to indict racism and misogyny while consistently presenting women and people of colour as endangering white men and societal structures.'
Dianne Kirby, Twentieth Century Communism
Printing Terror places horror comics of the Cold War in dialogue with the anxieties of their age. It rejects the narrative of horror comics as inherently, and necessarily, subversive and explores, instead, the ways in which these texts manifest white male fears over America's changing sociological landscape. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Manchester University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 328
- ISBN
- 9781526135926
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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'The six main chapters incorporate a broad range of texts, and in these Goodrum and Smith read comics from two distinct periods—the periods before and after the formation of the Comics Code Authority (CCA) in 1954—through the lenses of trauma, race, and gender.'
» .
Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association
'The authors robustly show the extent to which horror comics appear to indict racism and misogyny while consistently presenting women and people of colour as endangering white men and societal structures.'
Dianne Kirby, Twentieth Century Communism